An interesting find
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Topic: An interesting find
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Subject: An interesting find
Date Posted: 07 Jan 2026 at 6:53pm
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My brother works for the county in Eastern Colorado. They were digging up a dirt bank to build a bridge. They dug up a complete steam engine tractor. I’ll try to post pics later. I’ll post more info as I get it. I thought that was pretty neat. |
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Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 4:09am
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He messaged me last night and told me they buried it back. He said too many people were coming around and timing wouldn’t allow for it to be removed. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 4:18am
| I can’t get the pics to post. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 7:22am
| It'll take forever for the boiler to rust through and create a void in the soil. This is kinda like the 3 s's. |
Posted By: Dennis J OPKs
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 7:53am
| I think there are stories and maybe actual documentation of one or more of these being dug out of an old riverbed. I haven't tried Google yet. Too bad the looky-loos invaded. Will await photos. Hopefully a someday project for someone. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 9:01am
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My uncle Bob worked building the Alaskan Highway and KNOWs that several, sniff, sniff, A-C dozers got buried in the muskeg... rule was if stuck, you had 10 minutes to extract or it got buried. I bet there's a LOT of neat buried treasures up there ! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 9:14am
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I’ve travelled thru the central & north eastern CO US36/I70 / I76 corridors numerous times. Wondering why bury a steam engine there? Appears to always be very arid. Maybe an abandon steam engine would get drifted in by blow sand/dirt over decades?? Maybe another eastern CO (South east?) region though? |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 9:17am
| Was typical "Back in the Day" as Gas and eventually oil fuels took off to abandon the old steamers eventually becoming what they considered Semi Solid Non Compactible Fill for erosion controls, generally failed to function as intended. |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 08 Jan 2026 at 11:27am
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AC7060IL wrote:Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2026 at 6:50am
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I can’t get the pics resized. I can send them to someone if they want to see these or send them to someone smarter than me who could post them. |
Posted By: TerryfromswIA
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2026 at 1:44pm
| There was one dug up somewhere here in Iowa that showed at Carstens farm near Shelby Iowa. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2026 at 5:13pm
| OLD Big, Heavy IRON machines, Too hard and costly to Cut up Back in that time, simpler to just use for erosion Control as they used their old cars later. |
Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2026 at 11:17am
There is a state-numbered road in rural Casey County, Kentucky; a creek runs alongside the road that goes absolutely wild when it rains. There are hundreds upon hundreds of 1950s cars standing on end lining the creek banks. Any hollow within the cars and between them is packed full of creek rock. The old cars have done their job as the creek has not washed away the road. Many of them, you can see the top couple feet of the car and identify them; many still have such things as hood ornaments and trim.
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Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 14 Jan 2026 at 9:01am
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pictures for Thad, kinda looks like they dug a hole and just stuffed it into it     ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2026 at 6:52am
| Thank you Joe. I appreciate this. |
Posted By: JoeM(GA)
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2026 at 7:43am
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glad to!, love to know the story behind this ------------- Allis Express North Georgia 41 WC,48 UC Cane,7-G's, Ford 345C TLB |